Edith Wharton(1862-1937) is a central figure in American
literature, a masterful chronicler of her age and prolific writer
in many modes. Her major works includeThe House of
Mirth(1905),Ethan Frome(1911),The Custom of the Country(1913)
andThe Age of Innocence(1920), for which she received the Pulitzer
Prize, the first awarded to a woman.
Louis Auchincloss, editor of this volume, was the author of more
than fifty works of fiction, literary criticism, biography, and
history, and like Wharton before him held the distinction of being
his generation's foremost chronicler of New York society. He edited
two volumes of the writings of Theodore Roosevelt for The Library
of America.
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